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beyond the apex of the anal field. Wings transparent, iridescent, 

 feebly suffused distad, veins chestnut brown, a median suffusion 

 of chestnut brown in area of costal veins, beyond which the narrow 

 marginal area is buffy. Mesonotum ochraceous-tawny, heavily 

 and extensively suffused with mummy brown in latero-cephalic 

 portions covered by the pronotum,this showing through that trans- 

 parent portion of the pronotum and giving it the appearance of 

 being darkened caudad, with a meso-caudal fleck of warm buff; 

 metanotum similar except that there is no median fleck, but a 

 similar fleck of warm buff on each side caudad of the dark suffusions. 

 Dorsal surface of abdomen ochraceous-orange, the median segment 

 with a heavy transverse suffusion of mummy brown, which in in- 

 tensive examples occupies the entire segment and is blackish. 



Measurements {in millimeters). 



Length of Length of Width of Length of Width of 

 body pronotum pronotum tegmen tegmen 



Bartica, British Guiana, iypt' 10.3 2.8 3.7 10.3 2.8 



Bartica, British Guiana, para- 

 types (9) 10.-10.9 2.6-2.8- 3.6-3.7 9.6-10.3 2.6-2.8 



Gourdonville, French Guiana 9.2 2.6 3.6 9.8 2.6 



9 



Bartica, British Guiana, aZZo- 10 2.7 3.7 9.8 2.8 



type 



Bartica, British Guiana, para- 9.2-10.3 2.7-2.7 3.5-3.6 9.8-10 2.5-2.6 

 types (2) 



Demerara, British Guiana, (4) 9.9-10.5 2.7-2.7 3.6-3.7 9.7-9.9 2.7-2.7 



Specimens Examined; 20; 12 males and 8 females. 

 Bartica, British Guiana, December 10 to June 12, 1912 and 1913, 

 (H. S. Parish), 10c?, 49, type, allotype, paratypes, [A. N. S. P. ]. 

 Demerara, British Guiana, 1901, (R. J. Crew),4 9 ",[Hebard Cln.] 

 Gourdonville, French Guiana, October, Icf , [Paris Mus.]. 

 Charvein, French Guiana, November, Icf, [Hebard Cln.]. 



NYCTIBORINAE. 



Pseudischnoptera lineata (Olivier) Plate XI. figure 14. 



1789. Blatta lineata Olivier, Encycl. Method., Ins., IV, p., 17. [No loc- 

 ahty given. 1-] 



St, Jean du Maroni, French Guiana, 1 cf . 



Kourou, French Guiana, April, 1 cf . 



This strikingly colored and extraordinary species has been dis- 



" Recorded by Rehn as Pseudophyllodromia obscura Saussure, Proc, Acad. Nat. 

 Sci. Phila., 1906, p. 264, (1906). 



12 This species has subsequently been recorded from Cayenne and the Antilles, 

 the latter very possibly in error. 



